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. 2020 Jul 7;10:13. doi: 10.5334/tohm.63

Table 3.

Studies reporting frequency of tremor in idiopathic cervical dystonia patients.

Author/year No of patients Number of cervical dystonia patients Frequency of head tremor

Huizdosova et al [8] 2020 120 Cervical dystonia 58.3 % (n = 70)
Merola et al [9] 2019 1608 Cervical dystonia 18.1% (n = 291)
Gigante et al [10] 2015 173 72 cervical dystonia patients Overall 34% (n = 59) had tremor
[12 patients- head tremor
34 patients-arm tremor
13 patients-both sites]
Pandey et al [11] 2017 90 Adult onset isolated dystonia
Cervical dystonia-41
Limb dystonia-34
Cranial dystonia-15
Overall 45.5% (n = 41)
Cervical dystonia-21(51.2%)
Erro et al [12] 2013 473 Adult-onset
primary dystonia patients including 207 patients with cervical dystonia
Overall 55.4% (n = 262) had tremor;
196 patients (41.4%) had head tremor
Defazio et al [13] 2013 429 Primary adult onset dystonia patients including 118 cervical dystonia patients 22/34 (64.7) patients with tremor had cervical dystonia
Pal et al [14] 2000 114 Cervical dystonia 68.4% (n = 78) had head tremor and 34.6% of them (27) had tremor as one of the first symptoms
Deuschl et al [15] 1997 55 Idiopathic spasmodic torticollis 60%
Chan et al [16] 1991 266 Idiopathic cervical dystonia 28%
Jankovic et al [17] 1991 300 Cervical dystonia 71%
Couch et al [18] 1976 30 Torticollis 26 (86.6%)
Marsden et al [19] 1971 42 Idiopathic torsional dystonia 6 (14%)